Review: JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRISIS "One of the Best"
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
From Warner Premiere/DC Animation
Though all of the various DC animated direct-to-DVD films have been sales successes, there’s been plenty of debate as to which films succeeded as adaptations. While the main criticism has typically been “too short”, especially in terms of “The New Frontier”, fans and reviewers have been divided on which film is the best representation. “Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths” emerges as one of the best of the series thus far, and comes with a short that might actually be even better.
First, your feature presentation. DC faithful know the gist of this story, which owes its genesis in broad strokes to the multiverse team-up tradition of the Justice League books and in particular to the Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely “Earth-2” special of a few years ago. A mirror universe Lex Luthor, the only surviving hero of his world, jumps to the world of the Justice League to seek their aid in defeating the Crime Syndicate of Amerika, a vicious version of the JLA that’s structured not unlike The Mafia. Each of the CSA’s Big Guns is considered the head of a ****** with a huge crew of super-villains under his or her control. Obviously, this puts the League at a huge disadvantage, pushing them to the limits of their capabilities.
